Moving Weekend Extravaganza!

Our last weekend in Nashville was quite eventful.  Wes and I both worked full time up until Friday, I was in a wedding on Friday night, Wes was leading worship at church on Sunday morning, he had a work function to go to Sunday afternoon, and we were pulling out on Sunday evening.  Whew!  My oh-so-wonderful family came into town for the weekend as well, and were a huge, enormous help with packing and loading the truck.  Our awesome friends Sara and Kevin were also a huge help loading the truck on Saturday.  Thanks, guys!  

This post will have a TON of pictures because I LOVE pictures and I must document everything that happens in our lives.  So here you go.  Here is one of my mom and niece Rylie packing like maniacs!  Rylie was such a big help.

She finally found the Sharpie for us!

On Saturday while we were working, our dear friends Brad and Allie stopped by.  They got married the night before and came by on their way to the honeymoon to say goodbye!  (Notice the "Team Walters" shirts Wes and I are wearing -- Brad and Allie made those for us)

After a day of hard work, all of us went to downtown Nashville for one last time before the move. :(  We had lots of fun, though.  

I took this pic of me and my sis, Ashley as we were walking across the street. Those are some skills.

I absolutely love this one of Uncle Wes and Rylie walking downtown.  Presh.

On Sunday, after church and the work function, and after having our friends and family helping us frantically load up the rest of our stuff in the truck, we all gathered around and our friend Zeb prayed for us.  Thank you so much to all our wonderful friends who came and helped us and to see us off!  We love you all!

This was a very bittersweet day, and very hard saying goodbye to our family and friends in Nashville.  However, we know that is just part of this, and when God calls you to something, it means sacrifice sometimes.  We had a sadness, but also a joy knowing that we are following God's call on our lives right now to move to Buffalo.  I'm thankful and humbled that He has chosen us for this.

Alright, so on to more pictures!  Here is Wes white-knuckling it while driving the 16' trailer which also was pulling our Saturn on a dolly behind it.  It was a bit scary at times, but he was awesome and drove us safely about 14 hours to New York.

And here's our little boy in his bed between our seats.  He was either there or in my lap the entire time, and he did so much better than we expected in the truck!

Here are some scenery shots I took from the truck.  We had a gorgeous drive with all the fall colors.

And I'll just leave you with this.  No explanation necessary, except I love my husband.

Wes's CD Release Show featuring The Throws Reunion/Farewell

Well, we are officially living in Buffalo now.  I will be posting soon about moving day, our new place, etc., but due to my anal tendencies, I have to keep this thing in chronological order!  So, I have to post about Wes's CD release show that was on October 5th and was AWESOME.  For anyone who doesn't know, Wes has just completed his first solo album and he had his CD release show at The Basement in Nashville.  Here is his name in lights!

I made him pose beside his poster for a picture.  (And for those of you who don't know, he used Wesley Layton - his first and middle name - for this album.)

Here are some pics of the show.  All the guys from The Throws (the rock band Wes was in until January) reunited and played for him for the show, plus Nathan on guitar and Donnie on keyboard.  It was really cool that all the guys got to play together one more time before we moved.  It was kind of like a Throws reunion/farewell.

At one point, the band left the stage and Wes did an acoustic song.

Wes's brother Chad came down from North Carolina for the show, and his mom came up from Alabama.  Here are all the guys with mom:

If you're reading this, and you are interested in purchasing Wes's solo album (and I know I'm his wife, but it's REALLY GOOD), click here.

After the show, all the Throws guys and the wives took a prom picture, of course.

And this is just us being goofy.

More Skating, More Buffalo, and Boston

We actually got to go skating two weekends in a row!  Our awesome friends from our small group wanted all of us to go skating before we move to NY, so last weekend we were kicking it old school at the Brentwood Skate Center!  Here is Wes, Kevin, Sara, Amber, Misti, and Jennifer at the snack bar:

Amber and Jennifer:

April and Cole:

Allie:

Us:

Thanks friends for indulging us and for that wonderfully fun day!!

We drove up to Buffalo this past Sunday for a few days, so I'll share some pics from this trip. We experienced our first authentic Italian cuisine in Buffalo at Frank's Sunny Italy:

This is a place called Delaware Park, which is a few minutes from where we're gonna live. You're jealous.

And here is.........drum roll...........our house!!  We will be living in the upper portion of this house that was built in 1900! That will be our cute little porch that you see here.  God totally provided this place for us in the perfect location, a great deal, and we love it.

I will post pictures of the inside once we get moved in and get our own stuff in there.  Yay!

And now, just for kicks and giggles, here are some shots of our precious little boy, Boston:

And even though we're not doing all that great this season, we still love our Auburn Tigers! Boston sends out a big WAR EAGLE!!  And tell me this is not the cutest thing you've ever seen!?!?!?